History Music / BuckTick

* DyeHard: Sakurai's hair started out bleached blond, and while most of the band have tried different colors over the years, it's mostly Imai who has made an art form of it. By now he's probably run through every available hair color and a few more besides.

* HoYay: See "Fanservice", above.

* PromotedFanboy: All the band are this, to some extent, since they started out as a Stalin cover band and later had Michiro Endo guest at one of their shows and cover one of their songs. Both Sakurai and Imai have gone on to perform on stage/record with, have their songs covered by, or (in Sakurai's case) have songs WRITTEN for him by musicians they idolised back when they first started the band.

* GenreShift: Started out as PunkRock, but have shifted to {{Industrial}}, PostPunk, Music/NewWave, AlternativeRock, GothRock, and now what Sakurai is calling "straight rock." In effect, almost every studio album serves as a NewSoundAlbum to some extent. They also reputedly started VisualKei somewhere in there.

* {{Mondegreen}}: ''J'' features "Just my penis with me," which is actually "let's bloody dance with me."

BUCK-TICK is a Japanese rock band from Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture. Though they have never described themselves as such, they are widely regarded as one of the key founders of VisualKei, alongside bands like {{Music/X Japan}}, D'erlanger, and {{COLOR}}. They were also contemporaries with many of the artists in those bands and acts - specifically, the singer Atsushi and guitarist/theremin player/programmer/bandleader Imai were somewhat close friends of [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]]. Formed in 1983, the band stands out amongst their peers for being relatively controversy free throughout their entire run, having had the same line up since 1985 with no break ups, hiatuses, deaths or other such misfortunes befalling them that are so common amongst other bands within VisualKei, save for band leader and lead guitarist Hisashi Imai getting arrested in 1989 for possession of LSD (Which, compared to some of the stuff other Visual Kei bands were getting up to at the time, is a rather minor infraction indeed). Going on for over 30 years, BUCK-TICK are the longest lasting Visual Kei band in the genre, beating out more well known acts such as XJapan and COLOR and are one of the most respected rock bands in Japan.

* Lucy (Imai Hisashi. Also features Kiyoshi from [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]] with Spread Beaver.
* Dropz (Hoshino Hidehiko, Also featured Cube Juice, and Kelli Ali of [[SneakerPimps Sneaker Pimps]]).

* CoverVersion: When the band started out, they played cover versions of the Japanese punk band The Stalin. They also recorded a cover version of [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]]'s "DOUBT" for the "hide: Tribute Spirits" album and Michiro Endo's song "Omae no Inu Ninaru" for the "Romantist - The Stalin, Michiro Endo Tribute Album". Subverted for their 20th anniversary when they invited other bands to cover their music for the "Parade: Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick" albums, and with the covers of their work appearing on the recent "Crush!-90's V-Rock Best Hit Cover Songs" album series.

* PuttingOnTheReich: J-Rock seems to have a love affair with faux-Nazi uniforms, presumably for the shock-factor. There's a [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yoshikiatsushi_1945.jpg well-known photo shoot]] from the early days of the band that features Sakurai in one of these, looming over Music/YoshikiHayashi of Music/XJapan, who seems to be taking the role of the DistressedDamsel (or FemmeFatale, depending on how you view it).

* AnimeThemeSong: The band provided the OP themes for TrinityBlood, {{Shiki}} and {{Nightwalker}} and the second ED theme for ''xxxHolic''.

BUCK-TICK is a Japanese rock band from Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture. Though they have never described themselves as such, they are widely regarded as one of the key founders of VisualKei, alongside bands like {{Music/X Japan}}, D'erlanger, and {{COLOR}}. They were also contemporaries with many of the artists in those bands and acts - specifically, the singer Atsushi and guitarist/theremin player/programmer/bandleader Imai were somewhat close friends of [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]]. Formed in 1983, the band stands out amongst their peers for being relatively controversy free throughout their entire run, having had the same line up since 1985 with no break ups, hiatuses, deaths or other such misfortunes befalling them that are so common amongst other bands within VisualKei, save for band leader and lead guitarist Hisashi Imai getting arrested in 1989 for possession of LSD (Which, compared to some of the stuff other Visual Kei bands were getting up to at the time, is a rather minor infraction indeed). Going on for over 30 years, BUCK-TICK are the longest lasting Visual Kei band in the genre, beating out more well known acts such as XJapan and COLORS and are one of the most respected rock bands in Japan.

BUCK-TICK is a Japanese rock band from Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture. Though they have never described themselves as such, they are widely regarded as one of the key founders of VisualKei, alongside bands like {{Music/X Japan}}, D'erlanger, and {{COLOR}}. They were also contemporaries with many of the artists in those bands and acts - specifically, the singer Atsushi and guitarist/theremin player/programmer/bandleader Imai were somewhat close friends of [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]]. Formed in 1983, the band stands out amongst their peers for being relatively controversy free throughout their entire run, having had the same line up since 1985 with no break ups, hiatuses, deaths or other such misfortunes befalling them that are so common amongst other bands within VisualKei, save for band leader and lead guitarist Hisashi Imai getting arrested in 1989 for possession of LSD (Which, compared to some of the stuff other Visual Kei bands were getting up to at the time, is a rather minor infraction indeed). Going on for over 30 years, BUCK-TICK are the longest lasting Visual Kei band in the genre, beating out more well known acts such as XJapan and COLORS.

BUCK-TICK is a Japanese rock band from Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture. Though they have never described themselves as such, they are widely regarded as one of the key founders of VisualKei, alongside bands like {{Music/X Japan}}, D'erlanger, and {{COLOR}}. They were also contemporaries with many of the artists in those bands and acts - specifically, the singer Atsushi and guitarist/theremin player/programmer/bandleader Imai were somewhat close friends of [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]]. Formed in 1983, the band stands out amongst their peers
for being relatively controversy free throughout their entire run, having had the same line up since 1985 with no break ups, hiatuses, deaths or other such misfortunes befalling them that are so common amongst other bands within VisualKei.

for being relatively controversy free throughout their entire run, having had the same line up since 1985 with no break ups, hiatuses, deaths or other such misfortunes befalling them that are so common amongst other bands within VisualKei.

BUCK-TICK is a Japanese rock band from Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture. Though they have never described themselves as such, they are widely regarded as one of the key founders of VisualKei, alongside bands like {{Music/X Japan}}, D'erlanger, and {{COLOR}}. They were also contemporaries with many of the artists in those bands and acts - specifically, the singer Atsushi and guitarist/theremin player/programmer/bandleader Imai were somewhat close friends of [[Music/HidetoMatsumoto hide]].

* HornyDevils: The theme of "Muma ~ The Nightmare," made most obvious in the 13Stairs live - the song is about an incubus/sexual vampire, and Atsushi plays the role as he sings it...

* IntercourseWithYou: The aptly named "Sex For You" and "Sexual XXXXX", plus less obvious ones like "Chocolate", "Tango Swanka" "Cream Soda," "Kimi no Vanilla," and "Jonathan Jet-Coaster." Frankly, a good portion of BUCK-TICK's songs are in this vein, one way or another (pun intended).
** ''Suzumebachi'' and ''Jonathan Jet-Coaster'' are what happens when IntercourseWithYou and HoYay get in bed together...

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: They have everything from a 2 to a 9. Looking for something soft and quiet? ''Romance'' (3) or ''Jupiter'' (3) or ''Dress'' (2) with TMR might be up your alley. Looking for fun, lighthearted pop rock? ''Django'' (3 bordering on 4) is your song. Want some Visual Kei HoYay fanservice? Try ''Suzumebachi'' (6) or ''Just One More Kiss'' (5) featuring Kiyoharu. Looking for a bit harder rock? Try ''Jonathan Jet-Coaster'' (5) or ''Speed.'' Looking for heavy, dark, Gothic atmosphere and staging that puts Malice Mizer to shame? ''Muma - The Nightmare 13 stairs live'' (6). Want some metal? ''Machine'' (7) or ''My Fuckin Valentine'' (6) or ''Heroin'' (8). Want something that borders on extreme metal of the weird variety? ''Detarame Yarou'' (9). Hell, want rap that ''still'' gets on that scale? ''Aikawarazu no 'Are' no Katamari ga Nosabaru Hedo no Soko no Fukidamari'' (4).

Every year, they host one of the few existent Visual festivals in Japan - Buck Tick Fest, where bands new and old are invited onstage to cover their songs and perform with them.

BUCK-TICK is a Japanese rock band from Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture. Though they have never described themselves as such, they are widely regarded as one of the key founders of VisualKei, alongside bands like {{Music/X Japan}}, D'erlanger, and {{COLOR}}.

* HarshVocals: Combined with HiddenDepths. Sakurai ''can'' be capable of it, though he doesn't try that often. ''Detarame Yarou,'' however, shows him to be ''just as capable'' of HarshVocals as Kiyoharu or similar artists more well known for that.

* TheMentallyDisturbed: Probably one of the most common lyrical tropes the band uses. It's been combined with, among others, AxCrazy as mentioned above, FunnySchizophrenia (the song ''Physical Neurose,'') and ''many'' other themes. Strangely enough, though, unlike [[Music/XJapan other]] [[Music/DirEnGrey bands]] [[Music/{{12012}} that]] focus on lyrics and songs about mental illness, none of the members have had an open or public struggle with it.